Is the extended medical degree programme misguided?

doi:10.1136/bmj.a255

BMJ 2008;336:1264 (7 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.a255

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Is the extended medical degree programme misguided?

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If tomorrow’s doctors should reflect the social and ethnicdiversity of our country,¹ why is the high proportion (91%)of ethnic minorities among extended medical degree programmestudents applauded when half the conventional students are fromthis group anyway?

Perhaps we need a selection policy to ensure that the ethnicmix of our doctors reflects the composition of our society (8-9%).²

Charles W Redman, consultant gynaecologist

¹ University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke on Trent ST4 7LN

cweraf@btopenworld.com

Competing interests: None declared.

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Gill PS, Kai J, Bhopal RS, Wild S. Black and minority ethnic groups. http://www.hcna.bham.ac.uk/series/bemgframe.htm

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